James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers have recently detected mysterious radio signals emanating from the ancient comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, capturing the ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

The Ancient Maya may have had large libraries and an advanced writing system, but very little remains today. Indeed, only ...

Researchers decode the Dresden Codex eclipse table, revealing how Mayan daykeepers predicted solar eclipses before modern ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a quasi-satellite may be the "relic of an interplanetary mission by humanity from the 1960s ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.